Infrastructure & Politics
Asymmetric dual object with special conditions
What is the Berlin Key?
Was not established as a legal concept until the 1970s. Occurred in an area that women working in Tesla would define as "the predator" zone.
What is sexual harassment?
Mobile App game we were requested to play
What is Animal Crossing Pocket Camp?
The rejection of using 5G from Huawei
What is risk of cybersecurity or hacking?
The Hustlers
Who is Steve Jobs & Bill Gates
Technological systems and artifacts can be thought of as political when they are used to solve political problems or when they acculturate users to particular modes of political participation
Who is Winner? or
What is Do Articles Have Politics?"
With wartime labor shortage came the rise of _____, for example, they were used to calculate with precision how far rockets would need to be launched...
What are women computers?
Based on the article "Consumption and Naturalism in Animal Crossing," Animal Crossing and _____ simulates the condition of affluenza.
What is The Sims?
"The right to be let alone, free from government interference in one's home."
Initiated Manhattan Project/ MIT engineer
Who is Vannevar Bush
Either spatial or temporal; infrastructure has reached beyond a single event or one-site practice (Where has your TAP Card been?)
What is Reach or scope?
"Cannot be understood as a role which either expresses or disguises an interior 'self,' whether that 'self' is conceived as sexed or not "
What is gender?
The process of changing thoughts and ideas in a way communicate; can be through messages or other tools.
What is encoding?
Decisions about our lives are being made based on data, yet people do not participate in that process. Things can happen to people based on that data.
What is personal information?
"Everything changes if the word mediation fills out a little in order to designate the action of mediators"
Who is Bruno Latour?
holds that there exist an "ontological distinction between representations and that which they purport to respect"
What is representationalism?
A survey conducted by female tech investors and executives where 200 senior-level women in Silicon Valley took where they reported discriminations based on their gender, work safety issues, unwanted sexual advances...
What is "The Elephant in the Valley"?
"Any society's culture tends, with varying degrees of closure, to impose its classifications of the social and cultural and political world.
What is dominant cultural order?
Developers use fingerprint sensors to track phone usage and gyroscopes to pick up some sound waves by measuring vibrations in the air instead of those just made by phone during normal operation.
What is a surveillance method?
The term Ekbia and Nardi used to describe "new logic of capital accumulation" where economic value is extracted from "low-cost or free labor in computer-mediated networks"
What is heteromation?
Allows information to be able to persist in time (newer versions of a program can open files created with an earlier version)
What is information infrastructure?
According to ___, "gender is not passively scripted on the body" it is varied on how one presents themselves through varies performances.
Who is Judith Butler?
The term given by Dr. Richard when stress is caused by one having to many things around
What is possession overload?
People are not concerned about government surveillance or listening in on my phone or collecting my data because I'm not doing anything wrong. Everything I'm doing is innocent.
What is the I've got nothing to hide argument?
The three women discussed in class that were human computers.
Who are Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan?